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...ches for Auto/Lazy Migration to improve locality and possibly performance of unpinned guest VMs on a NUMA platform. As a result of these conversations I have reposted the patches [4 series, ~40 patches] as RFCs to the linux-numa list. Links to threads given below. I have rebased the patches atop 3Nov10 mmotm series [2.6.36 + 3nov mmotm]. The patched kernel builds, boots and survives some fairly heavy testing on an 8 node istanbul x86_64. Under heavy load, I do encounter a race in the somewhat optional migration cache. Currently this generates a warning and carries on, but the one migration cach...

...ches for Auto/Lazy Migration to improve locality and possibly performance of unpinned guest VMs on a NUMA platform. As a result of these conversations I have reposted the patches [4 series, ~40 patches] as RFCs to the linux-numa list. Links to threads given below. I have rebased the patches atop 3Nov10 mmotm series [2.6.36 + 3nov mmotm]. The patched kernel builds, boots and survives some fairly heavy testing on an 8 node istanbul x86_64. Under heavy load, I do encounter a race in the somewhat optional migration cache. Currently this generates a warning and carries on, but the one migration cach...